Two very early inscriptions were found in excavations in the Shephelah this summer and word leaked about them both this week, in advance of the annual SBL/ASOR meetings in Philadelphia. Since lots of news reports and bloggers have written about them, I am not...
These Articles Are Reproduced With Special Permission From Archeological Diggings MagazineFor More Information And A Subscription, Please Visit www.DiggingsOnline.Com The Black Sea is a remarkable body of water; far larger than any lake, it is fed by a number of large...
Biblical Archeology, Free Course 5Important Inscriptions (Contd…) Inscriptions 3: While it is useful to discover artifacts, greater still is the discovery of inscriptions because they furnish information in a special way. We continue to study archeological...
Thessaloniki, an important city in northern Greece, has had somewhat of a Cinderella existence. History records that up until the Turkish conquest the city was a very important one and the fact that St Paul wrote two letters to the Christian church there indicates...
Back in September 1986 Diggings reported the discovery by Laurence Stager of a dog cemetery in Ascalon. Since that date Stager estimates that he has found more than a thousand dog skeletons there, all of which were neatly folded in a foetal position. There were no...
